How much does a website cost in Lebanon?
Ours are $299 for a site people read and $999 for one they use, both paid once, both yours outright. The number matters less than two questions most quotes avoid: do you own it at the end, and what does it cost every month after launch.
Last checked 14 August 2026. Prices on this page are ours and current.
Two very different things get called a website
One is a shop window. A few pages that say what you do, show what you sell, and give somebody a button to message you. Nobody does anything on it except look and get in touch. It should take about a day to build and it should be cheap.
The other runs your day. It takes payments or bookings, it holds your catalogue or your calendar, and there is an admin panel you actually log into. People use it rather than read it. That is a week of work and a different price.
Most confusing quotes come from a builder pricing the second and a buyer imagining the first, or the reverse. Say which one you want in the first email and half the confusion disappears.
What we charge
$299 for the shop window. A few pages that look properly made, English and Arabic, a WhatsApp button, a map, opening hours, and set up to be found on Google. Live in about a day.
$999 for the one that does things. Everything above, plus payments or bookings or both, your catalogue or calendar, an admin panel you control, customer accounts, a chatbot on the page that answers in Arabic or English, and your records kept somewhere searchable.
Both are paid once. No monthly fee to us, no contract, and no renting your own website back from the person who built it. These are Lebanon prices; the Gulf is quoted separately.
The monthly cost that is real and is not ours
A price paid once does not mean nothing is ever paid again, and any builder who implies that is setting you up for a surprise in month two.
A domain costs roughly a dollar a month, paid to the registrar. Hosting for a simple site is often free and for a shop with real traffic usually runs somewhere between five and twenty five dollars a month. If you keep records or run a database, add a few dollars.
Those go to the companies providing them, not to us, and both should be registered in your name. That is the difference between owning a website and having access to one.
What should make a price go up, and what should not
Reasonable reasons for a higher quote: a large catalogue that has to be migrated from somewhere, real custom logic like a portal or a dashboard, an integration with software you already run, or content that has to be written from nothing rather than supplied.
Less reasonable ones: page count on its own, since ten similar pages are not ten times one page. Design revisions billed by the round. And a monthly fee for a site that is finished, which is a rental dressed as maintenance.
The questions to ask before you pay anybody
Who owns the domain and the hosting account when this is done. Whose name are they in. Can I move the site somewhere else without asking you. What exactly costs money every month after launch, and to whom.
Ask those four of everyone quoting, including us. The answers tell you more about what you are buying than the price does.
Do not take our word for it.
A working example of a site being assembled, and both prices in full.
- Do I own the website?
- With us, yes, outright, and the domain and hosting are in your name. You can move it anywhere at any time without asking us.
- Is there a monthly fee?
- Not to us. Hosting and the domain are paid to the companies providing them, usually a few dollars a month, and they stay yours.
- How long does it take?
- About a day for a shop window. About a week for one that takes payments or bookings, and a bit longer if you want everything in the list at once.
- Can it be in Arabic and English?
- Both, in both prices. Not machine translated, and laid out properly right to left where it should be.
- What about getting found on Google?
- The technical side is included: structure, metadata, sitemap, the set up Google wants. Writing the pages that get you found is ongoing work rather than something handed over once, so we scope that separately after the site is live.
Tell us what you are trying to work out and we will answer it straight, including when the answer is that you do not need us.
Or email hello@ahlelak.com